Git checkout/pull doesn't remove directories?

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I've got my repo @ github. I did some work at home and pushed it to github. It involved some deleting of files and directories. Now I'm on my work box, which had a copy of the code before deleting the files and directories.

I issued the following:

git remote update
git checkout HEAD
git pull origin HEAD

It deleted all of the files it should have, but not the directories the files were in.

Two questions:

  1. Why did it not remove the directories?
  2. Is there a git command I can issue in the current state to remove them?
git-clean git
5 Answers

I had same issue, in my case on build service (CI).. as GIT pulls all files without cleaning folders, all the bin / obj that were previously builded by the CI are dirty, so If I remove a test project, the bin will still contain the DLL and will mention tests that does not exist.

In order to solve this issue; this command seems to do the trick (at least for me)

git clean -fd -x

where X will remove all untracked files:

-X Remove only files ignored by Git. This may be useful to rebuild everything from scratch, but keep manually created files.

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